Folding box

• US 5,911,358 A
• Filed: 02/12/1998
• Issued: 06/15/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CD Cartondruck AG
• Original Assignee: Multi Packaging Solutions GmbH (Graeme Richard Hart, MBA)
• Inventors: Kenner, Ralf, Loprete, Wayne
• Primary Examiner(s): Elkins, Gary E.
• Application Number:
  US09/022,916
• Time in Patent Office: 488 Days
• Field of Search: 229/4.5, 229/116.1, 229/117.01, 229/117.06, 229/128, 229/185.1, 229/902, 229/906, D 9/433
• US Class Current: 229/116.1
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/0209 the tubular body having a curved or partially curved cross-section

Abstract

The invention relates to a folding box (10) for storing, transporting and displaying goods, in particular cosmetic or pharmaceutical products, having a first wall element (12), which is arched out convexly, a second wall element (14), which is arched out convexly in the opposite direction and is connected to the first wall element (12) via a folding line (20), a top-cover unit (30), which is designed to correspond to the arching of the wall elements (12, 14) and is connected via a folding line (34), and a base unit (40), which is designed to correspond to the arching of the wall elements (12, 14) and is connected via a folding line (44), and the invention is defined in that a first outer-wall element (16), which is connected via a second folding line (22), arranged parallel to the first folding line (20), is provided, a second outer-wall element (18), which is connected via a third folding line (24), arranged parallel to the first folding line (20), is provided, the first outer-wall element (16) is folded onto the outside of the first wall element (12), and fastened there, and the second outer-wall element (18) is folded onto the outside of the second wall element (14), and fastened there, and the top and bottom borders of the first outer-wall element (16) and/or of the second outer-wall element (18) run in a rectilinear manner.

Claims

1. A folding box (10) for storing, transporting and displaying goods, in particular cosmetic or pharmaceutical products, having

a first wall element (12), which is arched out convexly,

a second wall element (14), which is arched out convexly in the opposite direction and is connected to the first wall element (12) via a folding line (20),

a top-cover unit (30), which is designed to correspond to the arching of the wall elements (12, 14) and is connected via a folding line (34), and

a base unit (40), which is designed to correspond to the arching of the wall elements (12, 14) and is connected via a folding line (44), wherein

a first outer-wall element (16), which is connected via a second folding line (22), arranged parallel to the first folding line (20), is provided,

a second outer-wall element (18), which is connected via a third folding line (24), arranged parallel to the first folding line (20), is provided,

the first outer-wall element (16) is folded onto the outside of the first wall element (12), and fastened there, and the second outer-wall element (18) is folded onto the outside of the second wall element (14), and fastened there, and

the top and bottom borders of the first outer-wall element (16) and/or of the second outer-wall element (18) run in a rectilinear manner.

2. The folding box as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base unit (40) has a first and a second base folding element (42.1, 42.2), which are each respectively connected, via the curved folding line (44), to the first wall element (12) and the second wall element (14), and one of the two base folding elements (42.2) has an essentially central folding line (46), around which a region (47) of the base folding element (42.2) is folded inwards, and the inwardly folded region (47) is connected, at least in certain areas, to the inside of the opposite base folding element (42.1), with the result that, when the definitive folded shape of the folding box (10) is produced, the base unit (40) is erected automatically and constitutes a double bottom.

3. The folding box as claimed in claim 1, wherein a wall-reinforcing flap (50) is connected, via a folding line (54), in the base border region of the first and/or of the second outer-wall element (16, 18) and is fastened on the inside of the associated outer-wall elements (16, 18).

4. The folding box as claimed in claim 1, wherein the top-cover unit (30) has a first and a second top-cover folding element (32.1, 32.2), which are each respectively integrally formed, via a curved folding line (34), to the first wall element and to the second wall element (14).

5. The folding box as claimed in claim 4, wherein the first and/or the second top-cover folding element (32.1. 32.2) have/has at least one insertion flap (36.1, 36.2).

6. The folding box as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the opened-up state of the folding box (10), the top and/or bottom border of the first outer-wall element (16) and/or second outer-wall element (19) project/projects beyond the top-cover unit (30) and/or base unit (40), respectively.

7. The folding box as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first wall element (12) and/or the second wall element (14) and/or the first outer-wall element (16) and/or the second outer-wall element (18) have/has at least one recess.

8. The folding box as claimed in claim 1, wherein the elements are fastened to one another by adhesive bonding.